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<div class="terms clearfix"><ul class="taxonomy-list"><li><a href="/taxonomy/term/2676">Biographies &amp; Memoirs</a></li></ul></div><div class="terms clearfix"><ul class="taxonomy-list"><li><a href="/taxonomy/term/340">University of Mary Washington</a></li><li><a href="/taxonomy/term/641">Frontier and pioneer life</a></li><li><a href="/taxonomy/term/1978">Mormons</a></li><li><a href="/taxonomy/term/2206">Great Lives series</a></li></ul></div><div class="terms clearfix"><ul class="taxonomy-list"><li><a href="/taxonomy/term/28">LibraryPoint Blog</a></li><li><a href="/taxonomy/term/222">History Blog</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-field-blog-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img src="http://www.librarypoint.org/sites/librarypoint.org/files/imagecache/brigham_young_prophet.jpg" alt="Brigham Young, Pioneer Prophet" title="Brigham Young, Pioneer Prophet" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>The University of Mary Washington&#39;s 2013 <a href="http://www.umw.edu/greatlives/2013-calendar-of-lectures/">Chappell Great Lives Lecture Series</a> continues on Thursday, February 7, with a lecture on Brigham Young by John Turner author of <a href="http://librarypoint.bibliocommons.com/item/show/617567072_brigham_young,_pioneer_prophet"><em>Brigham Young: Pioneer Prophet</em></a>:<br />
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Brigham Young at age forty lived in western Illinois, was a faithful disciple of the Mormon prophet Joseph Smith, and had but one wife. He was known for his spiritual fire, collegial leadership, and tireless missionary service. Within ten years, much had changed. By then, Young had led thousands of religious refugees to the Salt Lake Valley, stood at the head of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, was the governor of the newly created Utah Territory, and had been sealed in marriage to fifty-five wives. Young, moreover, had become a very different sort of leader: hyper-sensitive to criticism, vigilant against potential rivals within the church, and violent in his rhetorical responses to everything from criminality to U.S. interference in Utah affairs. In his talk, John Turner will follow Brigham Young from Illinois to Utah, explaining how that transition affected both Young&rsquo;s personality and the place of his church within American society.</p>
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<a href="http://www.umw.edu/greatlives/2013-calendar-of-lectures/#brigham">Find out more</a> about this lecture on Mary Washington&#39;s web site.</div>
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All lectures in the university&#39;s Great Lives series are held at 7:30pm, in Dodd Auditorium, George Washington Hall, and are free and open to the public.</div>
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